Preface

Over the years, Azure cloud services have grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services has also been on the increase. Leading industry giants are discovering that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements.

This book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of the cloud, including high availability and data management. Gradually, we move on to various other aspects, such as building your cloud deployment and architecture. Every architect should have a good grasp of some of the important architectural concerns related to any application. These relate to high availability, security, scalability, and monitoring. They become all the more important because the entire premise of the cloud is dependent on these important concerns. This book will provide architects with all the important options related to scalability, availability, security, and the monitoring of Infrastructure of a Service (IaaS) as well as Platform as a Service (PaaS) deployments. Data has become one of the most important aspects of cloud applications. This book covers the architecture and design considerations for deploying Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) applications on Azure. Big data and related data activities, including data cleaning, filtering, formatting, and using Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) services are provided by the Azure Data Factory service. Finally, serverless technologies are gaining a lot of traction with their orchestration using Azure Logic Apps. This will also be covered comprehensively in this book.

By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a fully-fledged Azure cloud instance.